Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Do Torah-believing Jews believe in dinosaurs? If we don’t, how do we explain the finding of 230-million-year-old dinosaur fossils? Rabbi Chaim Mintz responds: […]
Judaism 101
Explore deep Jewish concepts like free will, the soul, and Divine Providence—made approachable.
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Since everything that happens is from God and the Nazis were merely agents to carry out His Master Plan, why are people always […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I find myself so busy sometimes that I seem to lose track of thinking about God being part of my life. How can […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz You always talk about God being so benevolent and compassionate. If that is the case, why do we have the concept of “Keil […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz Before bringing the Great Flood (Mabul), God declared that man is so evil that He regrets having created him. Since God knows everything […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz My seven-year-old child asked me the following: How can we say that God is everywhere, if it is impossible for anyone to be […]
Confounding Criticism In this week’s Torah reading, Yitro (Jethro), the father-in-law of Moshe (Moses), joins the Jews in the desert. The following day, after Yitro enters the camp of the […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz I heard that we are supposed to taste the Shabbat food before Shabbat. What is the reason for this, and does the Rabbi […]
Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Mintz When Yitro arrived in the desert to join the Jewish People, he criticized Moshe (Moses)’s handling of the court system and offered him […]
Fear before Belief? In this week’s Torah reading, as the Torah describes the splitting of the Yam Suf (Red Sea), the Torah says that the Jews became fearful of God […]
